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The column I hope everyone read in Sunday’s Post is Justice Antonin Scalia’s “Advice for a New Grad” (PostScript, June 20).

It was buried underneath Peggy Noonan’s column, “Curses!” where she absurdly suggests that Democrats would soon pressure Hillary Clinton to consider running for president in 2012. Clinton has been a major part of the problem for 20 years, and now she is supposed to be part of the solution?

Normally, Noonan is the sanest of the sane, but this time the sanity came from Scalia. Parents should force their children to get off Twitter for 10 minutes and read his advice.

His admonition for new grads to make certain that their ideals are the right ones is brilliant in its simplicity: Good intentions do not suffice. To seek wisdom in decision-making is better than seeking a mere goal.

Wise decisions have a lasting foundation, and expeditious ones fade away. A good conscience forms good ideals, and good ideals make for a good person.